Obj. ID: 140
Jewish Architecture Great Synagogue in Slonim, Belarus
The synagogue was built in 1635 and in the eighteenth century it acquired its Baroque high gable. The core rectangular prayer hall had a central Bimah, built as so-called Bimah-support construction. Its four massive pillars supported the vaults of the hall; a richly decorated inner vault was situated above the place of Torah reading.
2 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Michael Beizer, Our Legacy: The CIS synagogues, Past and Present (Moscow-Jerusalem, 2002), p. 172;
Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Bramy Nieba: Bóżnice murowane na ziemiach dawnej Rzeczypospolitej (Warsaw, 1999), pp. 198-203 with ills. and ill. 56, 79, 84, 417;
Boris Khaimovich, "Istoriko-etnographicheskie ekspeditsii Peterburgskogo evreiskogo universiteta," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), pp. 15-43, p. 31;
Mikhail Kheifets, "Evreiskoe nasledie Belorussii," in: V.A.Dymshitz (ed.), Istoriia evreev na Ukraine i v Belorussii: ekspeditsii, pamiatniki, nakhodki (=Trudy po iudaike, issue 2) (St. Petersburg, 1994), pp. 44-52, p. 45 with ills.;
Vladimir Likhodedov, Synagogues (Minsk, 2007), ills. 84-89 on pp. 49-52;
Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004), ill. on p. 172 (ext), 179 (womens section);
http://globus.tut.by/slonim/index3.htm#sinagoga;
Biuleten' manitorynhu histarychnai prastory, 1/2016: Sinahohi Belarusi, pp. 120-128 with photos of the 1940s.